Books set in Algeria (48)
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AlgeriaDescription:
La doar cîteva luni după ce nu manifestase nici o umbră de sentiment la înmormîntarea mamei lui, protagonistul romanului Străinul, Meursault, ucide un arab. Este momentul cînd povestea se desparte. Mai întîi ne poartă spre trecut, unde asistăm la viaţa relativ banală a unui funcţionar din Alger: moartea mamei, prietenia cu vecinul Raymond, relaţia cu o fostă colegă de serviciu, ajutorul dat lui Raymond ca să se răzbune pe o iubită presupus infidelă. De aici însă lucrurile devin tot mai tensionate, căci iubita lui Raymond e algeriană, iar fratele ei &ic... continue
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The Angels Die by Yasmina Khadra EN
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"A writer who can understand man wherever he is."--The New York Times "Khadra's prose is gentle and precise."--The New Yorker As a child living in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. When his family find a home in the city anything seems possible. Through a succession of menial jobs, the constants for Turambo are rage at the injustice surrounding him, and a reliable left hook. A boxing apprenticeship offers Turambo a choice. Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. He is the author of more than twenty novels, including The Swallows of Kabul.
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The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter EN
FranceDescription:
A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism Naïma’s family comes from Algeria, but she knows it only from what she experiences in her grandparents’ tiny apartment in Normandy: the food her grandmother cooks, the precious things they carried when they fled. Naïma’s father claims to remember nothing, has made himself French. But now, one of them is going back; Naïma will see for herself what was left behind—including the family secrets. How do we protect our families and choose the right side of war, revolution? What price wil... continue
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The Forbidden Woman by Malika Mokeddem EN
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After the war of independence against France, an Algerian woman returns to her village to discover the revolution is being betrayed. Moslem fundamentalists are turning back the clock on women's rights.
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The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal EN
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Based on a true story and inspired by the work of Primo Levi, The German Mujahid is a heartfelt reflection on guilt and the harsh imperatives of history. The Schiller brothers, Rachel and Malrich, couldn't be more dissimilar. They were born in a small village in Algeria to a German father and an Algerian mother, and raised by an elderly uncle in one of the toughest ghettos in France. But the similarities end there. Rachel is a model immigrant--hard working, upstanding, law-abiding. Malrich has drifted. Increasingly alienated and angry, a bleak future seems inevitable for him. But when Islamic ... continue
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The Lovers of Algeria : A Novel by Anouar Benmalek EN
MoroccoDescription:
Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best - friends are as likely to kill you as save you. Having run away from home, he lives by selling peanuts and single cigarettes on the street. The proposal by the elderly Swiss woman named Anna is shocking and preposterous: travel with her through war-ravaged lands, as a translator, so she can find her lost husband and pray over the graves of their murdered children. To Anna, however, the risk is no less than when they first met in Algeria during yet another time of unspeakable terror decades ago. As Anna a... continue
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The Meursault Investigation : A Novel by Kamel Daoud EN
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Best Translated Novel of the Decade – Lit Hub A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 — Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times — TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of 2015 — Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year — Financial Times Best Books of the Year “A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.” —The New Yorker He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, re... continue
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The Passionate Nomad; The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
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Isabelle Eberhardt went to North Africa in the late 1800's, became a fervent Muslim and spent the rest of her short life travelling the Sahara on horseback dressed as a man. Her diaries record her strange, nomadic lifestyle, her love of the desert and her unique understanding of Arabic culture and politics.
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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story from the point of view of an unknown narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, ... continue